What is so much memory needed for

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"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."-Bjarne Stroustrup
Nearing the end of finishing my 2D card game! I have to work on its 'manifesto' though <_<

Well what libraries are you using? Just because you aren't allocating memory doesn't mean they aren't. Also without really knowing what Windows is doing behind the scenes it is almost impossible to know why it is using that amount.

I am using no libraries. Except windows ofc.
I don't know what the stack really is (I know how it works in asm, but I don't understand that you can simultaneously store variables on it ), but my compiler sets a default stack size, that could be that big, I only didn't know that that was also shown in task manager.